What are your favorite beverages?

jamie_rael
jamie_rael Posts: 14 Member
in Food and Nutrition
We've heard that we should drink eight 8oz glasses of fluid daily. How do you reach your fluid intake goals? What are your favorite fitness/diet-geared beverages (obviously other than water!) to drink? What about seasonal beverages?
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  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    Coffee (drip and espresso), wine. Sometimes tea.
  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    I usually drink water with a couple Mio squirts in it. I used to drink the Sparkling Ice drinks, but it was getting expensive and returning bottles is a pain.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    I don't have fluid intake goals, but other than probably 3 or 4 cups of water a day, I generally drink coffee, hot tea, and diet soda. During the summer I'll also drink iced tea and add Mio or Crystal Light to water. Also beer, wine, and bourbon on occasion, but I don't generally think of them as hydrating :drinker:
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    water, coffee, diet dr pepper.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    You don’t need a special “fitness” beverage, unless you are sweating a lot and need to replace electrolytes. In that case, a sports drink like Gatorade will help.

    I mostly drink hot or iced tea. I have caffeinated black teas in the morning, and switch to herbal or decaf in the afternoon. Usually I don’t need sweetener, but sometimes I use a couple drops of liquid sucralose.

    For a treat, I sometimes order Thai iced tea or coffee. Both have plenty of cream and sugar, but I love them. Other than that, I don’t like most beverages enough to use calories on them.
  • Ducks47
    Ducks47 Posts: 131 Member
    I stick to mostly water with milky coffee in the morning. Maybe some sparkling soda water as well.
  • lalalacroix
    lalalacroix Posts: 834 Member
    During the day I drink water, hot tea with milk, sugar free energy drinks, Powerade zero, and sometimes diet Dr pepper. At night I have either wine or hot tea usually. I never count my ounces of fluid I just keep an eye on my urine color.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    edited December 2018
    Coffee, water, Monster Ultra Zero, Coke Zero and Clear American sparkling waters (Walmart brand)
  • FitnTrimSteve
    FitnTrimSteve Posts: 664 Member
    Coffee, Earl Gray tea, sweet tea, bourbon, scotch, vodka, club soda
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    edited December 2018
    I don't really drink fitness beverages. I just try to avoid drinking calories. My usual drinks are water, iced tea (unsweetened or with splenda), coffee, and coke zero. I also eat plenty of foods that contain a lot of water.

    I go by urine color for hydration.
  • FitnTrimSteve
    FitnTrimSteve Posts: 664 Member
    kami3006 wrote: »
    I don't really drink fitness beverages. I just try to avoid drinking calories. My usual drinks are water, iced tea (unsweetened or with splenda), coffee, and coke zero. I also eat plenty of foods that contain a lot of water.

    I go by urine color for hydration.

    That's what I do too. I think it's a great way to make sure I'm getting enough fluids.
  • debtay123
    debtay123 Posts: 1,327 Member
    my favorite is flavored coffee with ff coffee creamer and the skinny syrups for sweetners.
    also diet drinks, water , herbal teas- but hands down favorite drink is coffee
  • k8eekins
    k8eekins Posts: 2,264 Member
    jamie_rael wrote: »
    We've heard that we should drink eight 8 oz glasses of fluid daily. How do you reach your fluid intake goals? What are your favorite fitness/diet-geared beverages (obviously other than water!) to drink? What about seasonal beverages?

    My favourite stands to be what is identifiably a vegan eggnog, only that I don't see it as eggnog for most of the year, but simply - a favourite spiced chai.
  • wildredbill
    wildredbill Posts: 26 Member
    My go to, year around drink is Ice Tea. I make it at home on a bi - daily basis. Always use bulk Gunpowder Green Tea and make a gallon at a time. I always add lemon juice, Splenda, and garden fresh mint in summer.
    FYI. Gunpowder Green Tea is the type of tea that was thrown into Boston Harbor that started the American Revolution because the Colonists refused paying the British higher taxes on it. ( That fact sure doesn't make it any more healthy for me, but drinking so much of it helps me from eating too much.)
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    edited December 2018
    Water, coffee, propel with electrolytes, whiskey, bottle of wine, etc...

    There really is no magical amount of liquid that everybody needs. Check your urine for pale yellow color, of it is...you are hydrated the correct amount.
  • phoebe112476
    phoebe112476 Posts: 269 Member
    edited December 2018
    I love Tazo Chai Tea Latte Skinny mixed with Fairlife milk. I drink a serving each morning, iced. Only 160 cals with 13g protein and I am not hungry for actual food for 2-3 hours. Not exactly diet - but has helped keep me happy and satisfied on this journey to a sustainable lifestyle.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Morning: Jamaican blue mountain coffee
    Lunch: Coke zero
    Evening: Johnny Walker blue label
  • FitnTrimSteve
    FitnTrimSteve Posts: 664 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    Morning: Jamaican blue mountain coffee
    Lunch: Coke zero
    Evening: Johnny Walker blue label

    Haven’t tried the Blue Label. Tried Gold and thought JW Black was better. How is the blue compared to gold?
  • FL_Hiker
    FL_Hiker Posts: 919 Member
    Diet sprite and root beer, egg nog, milk, chocolate milk, and peach schnapps in diet sprite
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    flavored water
    diet soda (root beer)
    Milk

    Occasionally tequila or scotch.



    I think that's all I drink.
  • TanyaHooton
    TanyaHooton Posts: 249 Member
    I drink coffee with half & half in the morning, a coffee or hot tea mid-morning, water with lunch and for the afternoon, lemonade sweetened by stevia pre-dinner (I've been advised to get citrus in my diet on daily basis), and water with dinner. Sometime a beer or a glass of wine with dinner. Occasionally a cup of Dr. Pepper or orange juice with pulp - and "occasionally" means once a month or every six weeks. I log everything that has calories: half & half, lemonade, beer, wine, pop/soda, juice.

    I used to drink iced tea (lemon slice, but no sugar...I liked it BITTER) but that ultimately led to dehydration and a kidney stone. So now I have it rarely and I find that it causes water retention in me.

    I also have a weakness for Starbucks mint mocha. I try to stay out of Starbucks.
  • peleroja
    peleroja Posts: 3,979 Member
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    Unless there's a fancy coffee shop nearby, in which case I prefer a black Americano but with better beans. Or if I'm at home, I just drink regular pourover black coffee. I'm on the fast track to an ulcer probably (at least if you listen to my mother.)

    I drink a lot of water too, and on weekends I like a really smoky, peaty Scotch or a glass of pinot noir.
  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    Mostly water, lots of water. Not because I have any sort of hydration goals most of the time, but because I like to drink water. In high school I would easily drink 48oz of water in the span of a school day. I also drink coffee when I have time and am near a good coffee shop (so not Starbucks and the like) and tea.
  • jamie_rael
    jamie_rael Posts: 14 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    You don’t need a special “fitness” beverage, unless you are sweating a lot and need to replace electrolytes. In that case, a sports drink like Gatorade will help.

    I mostly drink hot or iced tea. I have caffeinated black teas in the morning, and switch to herbal or decaf in the afternoon. Usually I don’t need sweetener, but sometimes I use a couple drops of liquid sucralose.

    For a treat, I sometimes order Thai iced tea or coffee. Both have plenty of cream and sugar, but I love them. Other than that, I don’t like most beverages enough to use calories on them.

    I agree with you; I don't often spend calories on beverages. I try to stick to water and coffee. I'll have the occasional almond milk latte if I'm feeling frisky, though.
  • laurenq1991
    laurenq1991 Posts: 384 Member
    edited December 2018
    Tea (either hot or iced, from tea leaves or herbal). I sometimes put coconut or almond milk in it, and sometimes drink it by itself. Tea is a good way to drink a variety of flavorful beverages without calories. Flavored seltzer is another calorie-free beverage, although I don't drink it that often because carbonation is bad for teeth. A carbonation-free alternative to flavored seltzer is infused water. Cucumber, mint, berries, and melon are great for infusing. I don't drink anything special for exercise besides water.
  • whatalazyidiot
    whatalazyidiot Posts: 343 Member
    Diet Coke. Vodka with flavored sparkling water. Sugar free Rockstar. Oh, and I guess water.
  • no1racefan1
    no1racefan1 Posts: 277 Member
    Usually a glass of almond milk with breakfast, and regular water throughout the day, interspersed with the occasional La Croix sparkling water or unsweetened ice tea.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    jamie_rael wrote: »
    We've heard that we should drink eight 8oz glasses of fluid daily. How do you reach your fluid intake goals? What are your favorite fitness/diet-geared beverages (obviously other than water!) to drink? What about seasonal beverages?

    Seltzer, coffee, tea. Occasionally beer, soda, wine. this time of year I love Tom and Jerry's or a hot buttered rum
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